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Peters, Michigan





Since I'm prone to wandering and never finishing a task at hand and I don't wish to clutter another laptop with a multitudinous crush of newspaper articles I'm going to do mass drops of them for certain subjects that I don't plan to do in-depth research on. The small defunct town of Peters, Michigan is one such subject.



An Etsy listing for a general store in the town from the 1890s got me intrigued in it and as with most things I fritter on the edge of the thing and then leave it like the ghost town that it is. Not this time!



Henry Kaufman, said proprietor of the store, was also the postmaster and probably other jacks of all trades as most industrious men of small towns seemingly were. One thing we know about him is that he sold DeLand's Cap Sheaf soda pop.



As for Peters, Michigan, the Michigan State Gazeteer from 1897 states it as such, "A country postoffice in St. Clair county, 25 miles southwest of Port Huron."



Some of the other notable personages of the town were Kaufman Bros. cider manufacturers, Julius Kaufman, a cooper, the Peters Cheese Co., the Lutheran Rev. C. Schleicher and Herman Trettin, a mason. You always have to have a mason, free or not.



And the articles:



1898






The Times Herald, April 7, 1898






The Times Herald, October 20, 1898





1900







The Times Herald, March 16, 1900






The Times Herald, April 27, 1900



1902






The Times Herald, April 15, 1902






The Times Herald, November 15, 1902






The Times Herald, November 22, 1902



1903






The Times Herald, February 20, 1903






The Times Herald, March 14, 1903



1904






The Times Herald, March 2, 1904

Keywords: Keywords: William Schuenemen, Little Cheese Company, William Weideman, Ray Center, John P. Wolf, St. Clair Township, Winkel, August E. Wissman, William Kaufman, Andrew Woershal, Adrian, Otto Schleiger, Otto Kammer, Andrew Moershal, Marine City, Petersville Cheese Co., Rudolph Draves, August Schultz, Casco, Robert Kaufman, whooping cough, Lloyd G. Smith, Belle River, School District No. 2, Henry Burman, Ray Burgett, Ferdinand Peters, Anthony Winkel, Louis Walter, Henry Seifert, Charles Wissman, Ada Draves, William Schoeneman, Albert Winkel, Minnie Kammer, F. Bandlow, Charles Wolf, Christopher Schlotman, John Teichow, Laura Ford, John Ford, St. Paul's Cemetery, sugar beets, wheat, farmers, John Reidel, Michael Reidel, measles, Andrew Hahn, John Buer, Henry Loeding, Louis Kock, Fred Frank, Buffalo, New York, Baltimore, Maryland, Henry Schuty, Minnie Wayner, St. Paul's Church, Peters Comedy Club, Peters' School House, Emma Hamlin, Herman Brown, Minnie Walter, Albert Beier, Edward Green, Port Huron, Charles Schultz, Adair, Dr. Highstreet, Higistreet, Edward Villrot, Mary Villrot, Joseph WInkel, Lenox, Christ Semon, Edward Greene, Augusta Schroeder, Otto Schermer, Herman Brown, Draves & Kammer, Julius Schroeder, sawmill, Barney Kaufman, New Baltimore, Edward Laude, Helena Kaufman, Henry Weiser, Louisa Schmidt, William Green, Ernest Thueme, Joseph Striet, Frank Kleehammer, New Haven, Charles Koch, Emma Koch, Herman Thueme,Joseph Winkle, Richmond.
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